Former nursery owner is fined £35,000 after death of child

The former owner of a nursery, where a toddler died after getting her neck trapped in the drawstring of a bag, was fined £35,000 yesterday for breaking health and safety regulations.

Rosemary Meadows, 45, admitted she was legally responsible for 16-month-old Molly Cunliffe while the child was at her Gloucester nursery, Tiddlywinks. The toddler, left unattended at the nursery for 20 minutes, on October 20 2005, died after wrapping a clothes bag, which was attached to her cot, around he... (156 more words)

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